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Imperial Records
Imperial Records is a United States based label started in 1947 by Lew Chudd and reactivated in 2006 by label owner EMI.
Imperial was famous for recordings of rhythm & blues and early rock & roll like Fats Domino and Ricky Nelson. Imperial was licensed to London Records in the UK. In 1960 Lew Chudd...
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Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band (also known as The Bonzo Dog Band, The Bonzo Dog Dada Band and, colloquially, as "The Bonzos") are a band created by a group of British art-school denizens of the 1960s. Combining elements of music hall, trad jazz,...
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T-Bone Walker
T-Bone Walker (May 28, 1910 — March 16, 1975) was an American blues guitarist, singer, pianist and songwriter who was one of the most important pioneers of the electric guitar. His electric guitar solos were among the first heard on modern blues...
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- May 28, 1910
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- Mar 16, 1975 (age 64 years)
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The O'Jays
The O'Jays are a Canton, Ohio-based soul/R&B; group, originally consisting of Walter Williams (b. August 25, 1942), Bill Isles, Bobby Massey, William Powell (January 20, 1942–May 26, 1977) and Eddie Levert (b. June 16, 1942). The O'Jays were...
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- 1958
Lightnin' Hopkins
Sam "Lightnin’" Hopkins (March 15, 1912 — January 30, 1982) was a country blues guitarist, from Houston, Texas, United States.
Born in Centerville, Texas, Hopkins' childhood was immersed in the sounds of the blues and he developed a deeper...
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- Mar 15, 1912
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- Jan 30, 1982 (age 69 years)
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The Hollies
The Hollies are an English rock group from Manchester formed in the early 1960s. Known for their distinctive vocal harmony style (which influenced many other groups) they became one of the leading British groups of the era, and they enjoyed...
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- 1963
Slim Whitman
Ottis Dewey Whitman, Jr. (born January 20, 1924), known professionally as Slim Whitman, is an American country music singer and songwriter.
His 1955 hit single "Rose Marie" held the record for the longest time at number 1 on the UK charts until...
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- Jan 20, 1924 (age 86 years)
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Classics IV
Classics IV was a pop rock band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1965. The band and its lead singer Dennis Yost are principally known for the hits "Spooky" and "Stormy", both released in 1968 and both of which have become cover...
Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1965
Tim Whitsett
Tim Whitsett (born 1943) is a music publisher, musician, songwriter, producer, author, and consultant. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi.
Whitsett's Instrumental "Jive Harp" b/w "Pipe Dreams" was released on Imperial Records when he was sixteen....
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- 1943 (age 67 years)
The Punkles
The Punkles were a band performing songs by The Beatles in punk style. They formed in 1998 in Hamburg, Germany and it was actually a side project of Prollhead!.
After a lot of touring around Europe they toured together with Beatallica in October...
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The Swinging Blue Jeans
The Swinging Blue Jeans are a four piece 1960s British Merseybeat band, best known for their hit singles with the HMV label; "Hippy Hippy Shake", the follow up, Little Richard's "Good Golly Miss Molly", and "You're No Good", a Clint Ballard song...
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- 1960
Frances Faye
Frances Faye (November 4, 1912 - November 8, 1991) was an American cabaret and show tune singer and pianist. She was born to a working-class Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York City. She was a second cousin of actor Danny Kaye.
Born as Frances Cohen...
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- Nov 4, 1912
Date of death:
- Nov 8, 1991 (age 79 years)
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Steve Alaimo
Steve Alaimo was an American teen idol pop singer in the early 1960s who later became record producer and label owner, but he is perhaps best known for hosting and co-producing Dick Clark's Where the Action Is in the late 1960s.
Alaimo was born in...
Date of birth:
- 1939 (age 71 years)
Jimmy McCracklin
Jimmy McCracklin (born August 13, 1921, St. Louis Missouri) is an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B.; Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a...
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- Aug 13, 1921 (age 88 years)
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Faye Adams
Faye Adams (born Faye Tuell, circa 1923/1925, Newark, New Jersey) is an American vocalist.
She was the daughter of David Tuell, a gospel singer and a key figure in the Church of God in Christ (COGIC). At the age of five she joined her sisters to...
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- 1923 (age 87 years)
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Huey "Piano" Smith
Huey "Piano" Smith (born January 26, 1934, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American rhythm and blues pianist whose sound was influential in rock and roll.
His piano playing incorporated the boogie styles of Pete Johnson, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons...
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- Jan 26, 1934 (age 75 years)
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Fat Joe
Joseph Cartagena (born August 19, 1970), better known by his stage name Fat Joe, is an American rapper signed to Imperial Records, CEO of Terror Squad Entertainment, and member of musical groups D.I.T.C. and Terror Squad.
Fat Joe's first album was...
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- Aug 19, 1970 (age 39 years)
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Dorothy Shay
Dorothy Shay (April 11, 1921 – October 22, 1978) was a popular comedic recording artist in the late 1940s and early 1950s who later became a character actress. She was known as the "Park Avenue Hillbillie."
Shay was born Dorothy Sims in Jacksonville...
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1921
Date of death:
- Oct 22, 1978 (age 57 years)
Johnny Preston
Johnny Preston (born John Preston Courville, August 18, 1939, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American pop music singer.
Of Cajun ancestry, Preston sang in high school choral contests throughout the state of Texas. He formed a rock and roll band called ...
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- Aug 18, 1939 (age 70 years)
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Earl King
This article is about the musical artist. For the Earl King convicted of murdering a ship's officer, see Earl King, Ernest Ramsay, and Frank Conner
Earl King (February 7, 1934 – April 17, 2003) was an American singer, guitarist, and songwriter, most...
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- Feb 7, 1934
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- Apr 17, 2003 (age 69 years)
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Snooks Eaglin
Snooks Eaglin, born Fird Eaglin, Jr. (January 21, 1936 – February 18, 2009), was a guitarist and singer in New Orleans. He was also referred to as Blind Snooks Eaglin in his early years.
His vocal style is reminiscent of Ray Charles; indeed, in the...
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- Jan 21, 1936
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- Feb 18, 2009 (age 73 years)
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Sonny Criss
William "Sonny" Criss (23 October 1927 – 19 November 1977) was an American jazz musician.
An alto saxophonist of modest prominence during the bebop era of jazz, he was one of many players influenced by Charlie Parker.
William Criss was born in...
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- Oct 23, 1927
Date of death:
- Nov 19, 1977 (age 50 years)
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Johnny Rivers
Johnny Rivers (born John Henry Ramistella, 7 November 1942 in New York) is an American rock and roll singer, songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He was versatile enough to do folk songs, blues, and revivals of old-time rock 'n' roll music...
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- Nov 7, 1942 (age 67 years)
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Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon (January 24, 1947 – September 7, 2003) was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his strange, sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often...
Date of birth:
- Jan 24, 1947
Date of death:
- Sep 7, 2003 (age 56 years)
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Active as Musical Artist (start):
- 1966
Active as Musical Artist (end):
- 1966
The 5th Dimension
The 5th Dimension is a multiple Grammy-winning American popular music vocal group, whose repertoire also includes pop, R&B;, soul, and jazz.
The 5th Dimension was best-known during the late 1960s and early 1970s for popularizing the hits "Up, Up and...
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Sandy Nelson
Sandy Nelson (born Sander L Nelson, December 1, 1938, Santa Monica, California) is a drummer.
His first recording was called "Geronimo", recorded by Richie Podolor at American Recording and released on the Original Sound Records label. Though on the...
Date of birth:
- Dec 1, 1938 (age 71 years)
Irma Thomas
Irma Thomas (b. February 18, 1941, Ponchatoula, Louisiana) is a Grammy Award winning soul and rhythm and blues singer from New Orleans. She is known as the "Soul Queen of New Orleans."
Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but...
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- Feb 18, 1941 (age 68 years)
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Smiley Lewis
Smiley Lewis (July 5, 1913 – October 7, 1966) was an American New Orleans rhythm and blues musician. The journalist, Tony Russell, in his book The Blues - From Robert Johnson to Robert Cray, stated "Lewis was the unluckiest man in New Orleans. He...
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- Jul 5, 1913
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- Oct 7, 1966 (age 53 years)
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The Fantastic Baggys
The Fantastic Baggys were a surf and hot rod group, created by P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri. The studio group released several successful singles under the leadership of Sloan and Barri, most well-known for the more popular duo Jan & Dean. Under the...
Jin
Jin Au-Yeung (traditional Chinese: 歐陽靖; simplified Chinese: 欧阳靖; pinyin: Ōuyáng Jìng; Cantonese Yale: Āuyèuhng Jihng; born June 4, 1982), who performs under the stage name MC Jin, is a Hong Kong hip hop rapper, songwriter and actor. Growing up as an...
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- Jun 4, 1982 (age 27 years)
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Dorsey Burnette
Dorsey Burnette (December 28, 1932 - August 19, 1979) was an early Rockabilly singer from Memphis, Tennessee and with his younger brother Johnny Burnette and a friend named Paul Burlison was one of the founder members of The Rock and Roll Trio....
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- Dec 28, 1932
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1979 (age 46 years)
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Percy Mayfield
Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) was an American songwriter famous for the songs "Hit the Road Jack" and "Please Send Me Someone to Love", as well as a successful rhythm and blues artist known for his smooth vocal style.
Mayfield...
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- Aug 12, 1920
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1984 (age 64 years)
Rasheeda
Rasheeda Frost (born Rasheeda Buckner), better known by her stage name Rasheeda is a female rapper and hip-hop singer. Frost was born on July 29, 1982 in Brooklyn, New York. Rasheeda was a member of the teenage hip-hop trio Da Kaperz until 2000 when...
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- May 4, 1982 (age 27 years)
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Pee Wee Crayton
Connie Curtis Crayton (December 18, 1914 – June 25, 1985), known as Pee Wee Crayton, was an American R&B; and blues guitarist and singer.
Born in Rockdale, Texas, there are several stories on how Crayton acquired the name Pee Wee. In a Living Blues...
Date of birth:
- Dec 18, 1914
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1985 (age 70 years)
The Turbans
The Turbans were an African American doo-wop group, who formed in Philadelphia in 1953. The original members were: Al Banks (lead tenor), Matthew Platt (second tenor), Charlie Williams (baritone), and Andrew "Chet" Jones (bass). They came from...
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Cher
Cher (pronounced /ˈʃɛər/; born Cherilyn Sarkisian on May 20, 1946) is an American pop singer-songwriter, actor, director and record producer. She has won an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Awards and a People's...
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- May 20, 1946 (age 63 years)
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Fats Domino
Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B; and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter.
Antoine was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1949...
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- Feb 26, 1928 (age 81 years)
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Ricky Nelson
Eric Hilliard "Ricky" Nelson, later known as Rick Nelson (May 8, 1940 – December 31, 1985), was an American singer, musician and actor. He placed 53 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1957 and 1973, including 19 top-ten hits. Nelson was inducted...
Date of birth:
- May 8, 1940
Date of death:
- Dec 31, 1985 (age 45 years)
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Cyssero
Cyssero (born Michael Dowell) is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who records for Imperial Records. Cyssero was signed to The Black Wall Street Records, but left in 2006 after releasing his second album Protege of the Game.
2008,...
Date of birth:
- 1984 (age 26 years)
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Fender IV
Fender IV were a surf rock band of the 1960s. The Fender IV were started up in Baltimore, by guitarist Randy Holden. He moved the band to Southern California 1963 in order to play for a more receptive audience. Their music is strongly influenced by...
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Mel Carter
Mel Carter (born April 22, 1943; Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American singer.
Although Carter's work was not the perfect companion to the soul music produced by others during his active artistic output, it is representative of the tenor of the genre...
Date of birth:
- Apr 22, 1943 (age 66 years)
Tommy Ridgley
Tommy Ridgley (born Thomas Herman Ridgley), October 30, 1925 – August 11, 1999) was a R&B; singer in New Orleans, Louisiana.
He released his debut single "Shrewbury Blues" in 1949 from Imperial Records. In the 1950s he formed his group the...
Date of birth:
- 1925
Date of death:
- 1999 (age 74 years)
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Goree Carter
Goree Carter (December 31, 1930 - December 29, 1990) was an American R&B; singer and guitarist, best known for his 1949 single, "Rock Awhile".
Goree Carter was born in Houston, Texas. In 1949 he and his jump blues band, The Hepcats, signed for...
Date of birth:
- Dec 31, 1930
Date of death:
- Dec 29, 1990 (age 60 years)
The Sunshine Company
The Sunshine Company was an American pop group from Los Angeles, California. The group signed to Imperial Records and released their debut album in 1967. They scored three hit singles on the U.S. singles chart over the next two years before...
Hiromi Iwasaki
Hiromi Iwasaki (岩崎 宏美, Iwasaki Hiromi, born on November 12, 1958 in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese female singer who debuted in 1975. Her younger sister Yoshimi Iwasaki is also a singer.
Her representative songs are "ロマンス" Romance (1975), "思秋期"...
Date of birth:
- 1959 (age 51 years)
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Tielman Brothers
The Tielman Brothers were the first Dutch-Indonesian band that successfully went international in the 1950s. They were one of the pioneers of rock and roll in The Netherlands. The band was quite famous in Europe, long before The Beatles and The...
Lew Williams
Lew Williams (b. Jan. 12, 1934, Chillicothe, Texas) is an American rockabilly singer and songwriter, known as the "Cab Calloway of rockabilly".
Williams began singing at age four, and moved with his family to Dallas at age eleven. He played in local...
Date of birth:
- 1934 (age 76 years)
Addrisi Brothers
The Addrisi Brothers were an American pop group from Winthrop, Massachusetts. The brothers were Don (Dec. 14, 1938 - Nov. 13, 1984) and Dick (b. Jul. 4, 1941).
Both Don and Dick played parts in their family's acrobatic group, The Flying Addrisis. In...
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Bob Harrington
Bob Harrington (b. 1912) was an American jazz vibraphonist.
Harrington was also adept at drums and piano in addition to vibraphone. He played with Charlie Barnet in the early 1950s on piano and worked with both Red Nichols and Bud Freeman that...
Melvin Jackson
Melvin "Lil' Son" Jackson (August 16, 1915, Tyler, Texas - May 30, 1976, Dallas) was an American blues guitarist. He was a contemporary of Lightnin' Hopkins.
Jackson's mother played gospel guitar, and he played early on in a gospel group called the...
Date of birth:
- Aug 16, 1915
Date of death:
- May 30, 1976 (age 60 years)
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The Spiders
The Spiders were an R&B; vocal group from New Orleans, who achieved their greatest fame in the 1950s.
The group was founded as a gospel group in 1947 under the name Zion City Harmonizers, and later sang as the Delta Southernaires, recording and...
Chuck Carbo
Hayward "Chuck" Carbo was an American R&B; singer (1926-2008), best known for his time as a vocalist in the New Orleans group The Spiders.
Carbo sang with his brother, Leonard "Chick" Carbo, in The Spiders, who recorded for Imperial Records in the...
Date of birth:
- 1926
Date of death:
- 2008 (age 82 years)
Leon Ashley
Leon Walton (born May 18, 1936 in Covington, Georgia) is an American country music artist, known profressionally as Leon Ashley. He is known mainly for his number 1 single "Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)", which topped the country singles...
Date of birth:
- May 18, 1936 (age 73 years)
